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Engines of Our Ingenuity
Houston Public Media
100 episodes
11 hours ago

The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories.

This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.

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The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories.

This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3337: Claude Bernard
Episode: 3337  Claude Bernard’s important medical science, horrifically achieved.  Today, let’s meet a problematic scientist.
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12 hours ago
3 minutes 51 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2018: The Chamberlen Family Secret
Episode: 2018 The Chamberlen family secret: the invention of forceps.  Today, guest historian Cathy Patterson reveals family secrets.
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1 day ago
3 minutes 48 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3007: Elastic Chair
Episode: 3007 Samuel Gragg's Unusual Chair.  Today we look at an elastic Chair.
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2 days ago
3 minutes 42 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3336: Nickel
Episode: 3336 The evolution and potential demise of the lowly Nickel.  Today, let us spend the lowly nickel.
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3 days ago
3 minutes 54 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1467: Napoleon and Iron
Episode: 1467 Napoleon Bonaparte and Iron in France.  Today, Napoleon builds iron monuments.
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4 days ago
3 minutes 36 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1466: Vegetable Physiology
Episode: 1466 An old botany book for young girls changes scientific thinking.  Today, a young student forms a scientific theory.
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5 days ago
3 minutes 42 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3335: Transcontinental
Episode #3335 Learning to fly non-stop from coast to coast in America.  Today, we fly across America.
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6 days ago
3 minutes 50 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2527: Alphonse Bertillon
Episode: 2527 Alphonse Bertillon: Measuring the Man.  Today, the measure of a man.
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1 week ago
3 minutes 49 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3244: Bias in Face Recognition Software
Episode: 3244 Bias and Diversity in Photography and Face Recognition Software.  Today, bodies, in beautiful black and white.
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1 week ago
3 minutes 52 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2909: Renewable Energy
Episode: 2909 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Providing Renewable Energy, A Comparison of Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Lithium Ion Battery.  Today, a neat way to get energy.
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1 week ago
3 minutes 50 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1465: The Cancer Cluster Problem
Episode: 1465 In which random statistical clusters look significant.  Today, we flip six heads in a row.
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1 week ago
3 minutes 38 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1464: Learning Curve
Episode: 1464 Trying to teach technologies that were novel for us, but not our students.  Today, a thought about technological change and learning.
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1 week ago
3 minutes 39 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1463: New Hampshire Iron
Episode: 1463 An old pig iron smelter in the New Hampshire underbrush.  Today, an old iron works hidden in the tall grass.
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1 week ago
3 minutes 40 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1462: Jedidiah Morse
Episode: 1462 Jedidiah Morse, geographer and Samuel F. B. Morse's father.  Today, Jedidiah Morse's geography.
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1 week ago
3 minutes 42 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2523: Georges-Eugene Haussmann
Episode: 2523 Georges-Eugene Haussmann Reshapes Paris.  Today, a city redone.
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2 weeks ago
3 minutes 48 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3334: In Praise of Humble Lint
Episode: 3334 In Praise of Humble Lint.  Today highlighting a former fabric byproduct.
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2 weeks ago
3 minutes 45 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2818: The Pompeian Paradox
Episode: 2818 The Pompeian Paradox and Fiorelli's Body Casts.  Today, the Pompeian paradox.
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2 weeks ago
3 minutes 50 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1461: Telescopes
Episode: 1461 George Everett Hale and BIG telescopes.  Today, we look through some really big telescopes.
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2 weeks ago
3 minutes 40 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1460: Chindogu
Episode: 1460 The little-known Japanese art of Chindogu.  Today, the odd Japanese art of Chindogu.
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2 weeks ago
3 minutes 35 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1459: Teaching and Ambiguity
Episode: 1459 A tongue-tied attempt to say what teaching is.  Today, teaching and ambiguity.
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2 weeks ago
3 minutes 43 seconds

Engines of Our Ingenuity

The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories.

This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.